Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural MemoryAstrid Erll, Ann Rigney This collection of essays brings together two major new developments in cultural memory studies: firstly, the shift away from static models of cultural memory, where the emphasis lies on cultural products, in the direction of more dynamic models where the emphasis lies instead on the cultural and social processes involved in the ongoing production of shared views of the past; and secondly, the growing interest in the role of the media, and their role beyond that of mere storage, within these dynamics. |
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... literary writings of W. G. Sebald (Cooke, Crownshaw), through early photography and recent film (Bijl, Nungesser) to the new possibilities being provided by digital media (Hoskins). The individual essays demonstrate the impact ...
... from its dynamic relationship with that most directly dynamic of literary forms—the travel narrative—and our own cultural memory: the generic horizons of expectation that are confounded by his work. In some ways, the 16 Simon Cooke.
... literary mechanism of legitimation in the genre of travel literature” (Elsner and Rubiés 3). Equally, and bound up with this, is the requirement that the traveller should have actually been there, at a certain place (it is place, rather ...
... Fussell's 1980 study of British literary travel between the wars is the prototype of that powerful engine of cultural memory, nostalgia, in terms of travel writing. An elegy for what he calls the “last age” of travel, his 18 Simon Cooke.
Contents
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Colonial Photographs and the History of the Globe | 49 |
Theories of Memory and Photography in W G Sebalds Austerlitz | 67 |
Digital Network Memory | 91 |
Premediation Remediation and the Indian Mutiny | 109 |
Truth Myth and the Ned Kelly lieu de mémoire 18901930 | 139 |
Authenticity Memory and Morality in Representations of Anne Frank | 157 |
The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria 1897 | 173 |
Reporting on the Expulsion of Germans in Polish and German Magazines | 187 |
A Neglected TransGenerational Perspective | 205 |
Jan Wolkers and Gerard Reve | 229 |
Backmatter
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